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Vanguard News Early morning fire kills 3 siblings in Kano On By Bashir Bello, Kano An early Monday morning fire incident has claimed the lives of three members of the same family in Rijiyar Zaki, Ungoggo local government area of Kano State. The fire incident which occurred around 3:18 am is said to have razed the ground floor building and leaving the persons (occupants) trapped indoor. The spokesperson of the Kano State fire services, Sa’idu Muhammad who confirmed the incident to Vanguard on...

Kano Missing children: Five more children found in Anambra, Enugu— Govt official On By Bashir Bello The Kano State government has on Monday confirmed that additional five more children missing from the state have been found in Anambra and Enugu State. The State’s Commissioner of Information, Muhammad Garba confirmed the development to newsmen in the state. Garba said it got information of seven children but five out of the children have been identified by their parents while two others wer...

Gen Danbazau: Foreign powers behind Nigeria’s security challenges On By Bashir Bello Brigadier-General Idris Danbazau, retd, is emphatic that foreign powers are behind most of the security challenges facing Nigeria. Danbazau also warns against banditry in Katsina spilling over into Kano State following recent attacks in Minjibir, Tudun Wada and Takai Local Government Areas, LGAs, of Kano. He provides a glimpse into the bureaucracy involved in deploying security forces promptly to crime scene...

…Says bandits now kidnap in presence of security men and nothing happens …Recommends negotiation since security men have failed …Reveals dangerous drug they inject is called ‘Fanta’ By Bashir Bello Lawal Sa’idu, is a Katsina-based journalist. Sometime in 2019, he visited the bandits in their hideout in Dunbun Muazu and Dankolo in Sabuwa and Dandume Local Government Area of Katsina state and his observations and thoughts were published in Vanguard. He feared then that activities of t...

Police recover four corpses of bandits killed in gun duel in Katsina On By Bashir Bello Katsina State Police Command on Wednesday says it has recovered four more dead bodies of bandits killed in a gun duel in Kurfi Local Government Area of Katsina State. Vanguard recalls that the security operatives had penultimate Tuesday engaged the bandits in a fierce gun battle killing six bandits on the spot while the troops carried out a search on the forest for others. The Command’s Spokesperson, SP G...

Vanguard News Gunmen kill three, abduct medical doctor in Oyo On Ola Ajayi, Ibadan UNKNOWN gunmen have reportedly kidnapped a medical doctor, Akindele John Kayode, at one Health Care Center,  Tapa, in Ibarapa North Local Government. The doctor was reportedly abducted around 11 pm on Saturday. This happened just a few hours after some bandits killed a Chief Executive Officer of an independent marketer and his two young cousins in Idere. It was gathered that the CEO of the filling station and h...

By Bashir Bello The Katsina State government has insisted that it didn’t pay a dime as a ransom to secure the release of the schoolboys kidnapped by bandits who attacked the Government Science Secondary School in the Kankara area of the state. The state government kicked against reports making rounds that it paid the sum of N344 million (N1 million per head) as a ransom for the release of the schoolboys. The Secretary to the Katsina State Government, Mustapha Inuwa who stated this in an inter...

By Bashir Bello & Abdulmumin Murtala— KANO Former Governor of Kano State, Senator Ibrahim Shekarau(Kano Central), said on Sunday that Nigerians cannot have the change they desire until the 83 million eligible voters can produce the elected 11,000 few that make them(voters) sleep peacefully. Senator Shekarau noted that Nigerians are not doing the right thing to elect the right leaders from the ward level to the top, to bring about the leadership that would change the narrative of the nation. T...

Share When Mrs Ukachuku Amaka, a 31-year-old mother of two, fell into labour in July, she decided to patronise a hospital close to her residence. Restriction of movement due to COVID-19 lockdown in Lagos had prevented her from going to the family hospital where she originally planned to have her baby. “When I got to the hospital, they said they would do COVID-19 test for me. Soon, I noticed that my husband and I had been left in the labour room. The nurse told my husband that the COVID-19 tes...

Vanguard News 2021: Give useful, timely information to tackle insecurity ― Kano lawmaker On By Bashir Bello, Kano The member representing Ajingi, Albasu and Gaya Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Abdullahi Mahmud Gaya, has told members of the public to assist through providing security agencies with useful and timely information that would aid the fight against insecurity bedevilling the northern region and country at large. This was as he urged them to also pray ferventl...